jordanbaird / keysender Goto Github PK

Attempted to utilize today and did not see any results.

Here is my current code.

let sender = KeySender(key: .rightArrow)
		sender.trySend(to: "TextEdit")

Some things to note:

1. I first attempted to send .rightArrow to an app to advance to the next slide where this key will do that, but nothing happened. I did get errors a bit as I had to poke around for the actual app name, but once I got the app name, still nothing.
2. Then I tried a similar task in Slack, moving the cursor, but nothing happened. I also tried to type a letter but nothing happened.
3. Finally I switched to TextEdit since that was in the example and tried sending .rightArrow and .c but those didn't work either.

My thought is that I have a permissions problem?

I'm building this as a SwiftUI Mac App in XCode 14.3.1

Hey @jordanbaird, your package is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a lot. But unfortunately it doesn't work for me. I created a minimal console application to give it a try. I expect this line to open TextEdit and put the string "Hello".

try KeySender(for: "Hello World").openApplicationAndSend("TextEdit")

But unfortunately only TextEdit opens but not text appears. I already grant accessibility permissions for my console application. Do you have any idea what else could be missing?

EDIT 1: I found out that the behaviour described is related to that: https://stackoverflow.com/q/63094246. The conclusion is that adding a sleep after the line above helps. Does anyone knows a better solution?

Cheers
mahush